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When Opportunity Knocks: Eisai Turns To Business Development

15 Apr 2013

Executive Summary

Starting in 2006, Eisai embarked on a bold campaign to reorient the company around cancer – with an emphasis on externally sourced innovation – that put aggressive business development front and center. Now as Eisai prepares to launch what may be its most transformative in-licensed product, the weight-loss therapy Belviq, signs of trouble have appeared in its trophy cancer franchise.